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2 June 2010updated 05 Oct 2023 8:26am

Pride and prejudice: how not to fight homophobia in Africa

It is simplistic to suggest that African homophobia stems only from colonisation.

By Osita Mba

The coverage of the recent conviction of two gay Malawians (subsequently pardoned) for homosexuality was dominated by western human rights activists’ self-serving — but ultimately self-defeating — dismissal of African homophobia as “the desperate defence of western mores in indigenous clothing”.

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